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News & Notes: Supreme Court upholds Michigan ban on affirmative action

News & Notes: Supreme Court upholds Michigan ban on affirmative action

Alex Jafari

By a vote of six to two with one abstention, the Supreme Court turned down a challenge to a Michigan law that bans the implementation of affirmative action in college admissions. The Tuesday ruling made in Schuette v.

NEWS | 04/22/2014

News & Notes: Chance the Rapper cancels performance at Yale’s Spring Fling

Ray Mennin

Chancelor Bennett, more commonly known as Chance The Rapper, has canceled his performance for Yale University’s Spring Fling on Saturday. Chance was expected to perform at the event with electronic-dance DJ Diplo and pop artist Betty Who. According to a letter posted on his Twitter account by his manager Patrick Corcoran, Chance fell ill Friday night following his performance at the Brooklyn Bowl in Las Vegas.On Sunday morning, he was hospitalized at Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital with a high fever and difficulty speaking. Chance is currently recovering at his home. The announcement that he would not be able to perform at Yale occurred the same day he announced that he would not recover in time for his second set of the closing night at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.

NEWS | 04/22/2014

Q&A: Raila Odinga, former Prime Minister of Kenya

Jacqueline Gufford

After his lecture “The Awakening African Lion” on development and change on the African continent, former Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga sat down with The Daily Princetonian to discuss current Kenyan politics, his experience as an African Union negotiator in the Ivory Coast’s 2010-11 conflict and the rise of terrorism and terrorist groups in Africa. The Daily Princetonian: Political pluralism was established in Kenya as recently as 1991, and yet the presence of multiple political parties seems to make maintaining a stable state even more difficult.

NEWS | 04/21/2014

Former Kenyan Prime Minister discusses development of African continent

Former Kenyan Prime Minister discusses development of African continent

Jacqueline Gufford

Africa has made economic strides in the last several decades and will expand further in coming years due to political advancement, former Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga argued on Tuesday, in a lecture on development and change on the African continent. “If the continent you have in mind is of dictators and looters, think again,” Odinga said. Odinga, son of the first Vice President of Kenya, Oginga Odinga, held the position of Prime Minister of Kenya from 2008 to 2013, when the political position was abolished with the passage of a new constitution.

NEWS | 04/21/2014

Huffington urges need to redefine success

Huffington urges need to redefine success

Do-Hyeong Myeong

Arianna Huffington urged the need for a definition of success that accounts for personal well-being in a panel discussion held on Tuesday.In her latest book, “Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom and Wonder,” Huffington, chair, president and editor in chief of The Huffington Post Media Group, claims that people need to stop associating success only with money and power and instead consider “the Third Metric of success.” The Third Metric is constituted of what Huffington calls “four pillars” — well-being, wisdom, wonder and giving.Huffington said that her own collapse in 2007 due to extreme stress allowed her to question the traditional metrics of success.“By conventional definition of success, I was successful,” she said, “but by any sane definition of success, if you are lying in a pool of blood on the floor … you are not successful.”That experience led Huffington to ask herself the questions that “all the philosophers have asked forever — What is good life?

NEWS | 04/21/2014

News & Notes: Email declaring Yale's divestment was a prank

Daily Princetonian Staff

Select members of the Yale community received an email on Mondayafternoondeclaring the university’s decision to divest its assets from fossil fuel companies. The Yale Daily News reported that Yale University Secretary Kimberly Goff-Crews confirmed the email was “not an official Yale communication.” The email appeared to be sent by “Kenneth Wilkinson, Yale Corporation Committee on Investor Responsibility.” The Yale Daily News could not find any link to the university. The text of the email described a divestment plan which would last 10 years.

NEWS | 04/21/2014

News & Notes: Lupe Fiasco to perform at Dartmouth’s Green Key

Daily Princetonian Staff

Lupe Fiasco will perform at Dartmouth’s Green Key weekend, the Dartmouth Programming Board announced in a tweet on April 18.

NEWS | 04/21/2014

Equal Writes blog to return, hopes to publish more diverse opinions

Konadu Amoakuh

Rebecca Basaldua ’15 and Nadia Diamond ’17 are spearheading an effort to revitalize “Equal Writes,” acampus feminist blog founded in the spring of 2008 by Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux ’11 and Chloe Angyal ’09.

NEWS | 04/21/2014

Princeton closes tours of Nassau Hall amid campaign for more accessibility on campus

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Princeton closes tours of Nassau Hall amid campaign for more accessibility on campus

Ruby Shao

Nassau Hall is no longer a part of Orange Key tours. The University's oldest building was removed from the route on March 25 because handicapped visitors are not easily able to enter.

NEWS | 04/21/2014

With jurisdictional change and new management, arrests at the U-Store on the rise

A copy of the summons issued against a University student for allegedly stealing grapes from the U-Store

With jurisdictional change and new management, arrests at the U-Store on the rise

Chitra Marti

The U-Store appears to be cracking down on thefts at the store, leading to several arrests of both students and town residents in the last few months. James Sykes, President of the U-Store, said the increase in arrests is the result of new management, which took over in July.

NEWS | 04/21/2014

Study reveals that average citizens wield minimal political power

Jeron Fenton

New research produced by politics professor Martin Gilens andpolitical science professor at Northwestern University Benjamin Page shows that average citizens have little to no influence on the outcome of government policy. The data used in Page and Gilens' research consisted of 1,779 pieces of U.S.

NEWS | 04/20/2014

Long time Obama aide and long time writer of classmate news: Chris Lu '88

Long time Obama aide and long time writer of classmate news: Chris Lu '88

Jacob Donnelly

On April 5, 1988, at 2:27 a.m., Christopher P.

NEWS | 04/20/2014

News & Notes: 2014 Boston Marathon to expect high police presence

Daily Princetonian Staff

One year after the bombing at the Boston Marathon finish line, runners will take to the starting line for the 2014 Boston Marathon on Monday. Last year, two homemade bombs made from pressure cookers detonated near the marathon's finish line on April 15, killing three and wounding more than 260 others. Dozens of University students, faculty, staff and alumni either ran the marathon or attended the celebrations that accompanied the marathon, and were confirmed safe shortly after the bombs were detonated. There will be a higher-than-usual police presence at Monday's marathon, in addition to other security measures, Massachusetts Gov.

NEWS | 04/20/2014

USG discusses expansion of counseling services, Lawnparties

Durva Trivedi

Guests from the Graduate Student Government and Counseling and Psychological Services spoke at Sunday night’s USG Senate meeting. Dr. Calvin Chin, the director of CPS, addressed ways that CPS and USG can collaborate to spread the message that it's important to “not be afraid to acknowledge vulnerability, and to not be afraid to reach out and get resources.” Chin said that on their end, CPS is expanding counseling services' availability hours in the fall, developing their new initiative which places a CPS wellness outpost in the EQuad for drop-ins, working on a bystander intervention program in partnership with SHARE, putting together training so that students, faculty and staff can be trained to act as allies and working on destigmatizing mental illness. Chin said he wants students to know that “it’s okay to have stress, it’s okay to feel displaced, it’s okay sometimes to feel not okay, it’s okay to feel overwhelmed.” Chin said he hopes to communicate that message through a variety of video projects, including a Princeton Speaks Up initiative of short student, faculty and staff testimonial videos.

NEWS | 04/20/2014

Students to vote on separation of Senate, Class Governments

Ray Mennin

Students will vote on a referendum to separate the Senate and Class Governments in addition to voting for Class Council and U-Council positions.

NEWS | 04/20/2014

Katsevich '14 awarded Hertz Fellowship

Sheila Sisimit

Gene Katsevich ’14 is one of 15 students nationwide to be awarded a Hertz Fellowship this year.

NEWS | 04/20/2014

In light of Heartbleed, Princeton asks students to change passwords

Paul Phillips

The Office of Information Technology sent an email to students on Friday asking them to change their passwords in response to "Heartbleed," a security flaw in software used to protect private information on the Internet. Vice President for Information Technology and CIO Jay Dominick said Heartbleed is a function of a particular version of OpenSSL, a piece of software that encrypts Internet traffic.

NEWS | 04/18/2014

Eisgruber discusses online courses, higher education

Jacob Donnelly

The traditional brick-and-mortar college experience is still valuable because of the broad array of interactions it allows students to have with faculty members, University President Christopher Eisgruber’83said Thursday in a lecture that was a part of the “Last Lecture” series. Eisgruber explained that students may be more motivated to learn when immersed in an environment that offers opportunities to engage with the people who teach and grade them.

NEWS | 04/17/2014

News and Notes: Late García Márquez had ties to Princeton

Daily Princetonian Staff

Author and Nobel Laureate in literature GabrielGarcía Márquezdied Thursday at age 87. The exact cause of death was unspecified, but he had recently returned to his home in Mexico City after a hospitalization. Born in Colombia and widely considered one of the best Spanish-language authors of the 20th century, García Márquezpopularized magical realism, a literary genre that combines supernatural elements with the every day.

NEWS | 04/17/2014

News and Notes: No Truman scholarships awarded to Princeton this year

De Vann Sago

No Truman scholarships were awarded to the University this year, and no Princeton student made it to the final round of the application process for the second consecutive year, the Foundation announced. The scholarship was awarded this year to one student at Harvard and two students at Duke, but none of the scholars came from Yale.

NEWS | 04/17/2014

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